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democracy. >> tonight, governor tim walz and senator j.d. advance meet for their first and only debate as the 2024 democratic and republican vice-presidential nominees. our live coverage begins next with a preview, followed by the debate simulcast from cbs news at 9:00 p.m. eastern. after the debate we'll get your reaction by phone and text message. you can also leave ♪ >> good evening and welcome to c-span's live coverage of the cbs news vice presidential debate. tonight, minnesota's two-term governor tim walz and one term senator from ohio jd vance
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square off for the first and what is expected to be the only vice presidential debate. they face each other hours after intensifying situations in the middle east with iran attacking israel with rituals -- missiles. the two likely to get questions about the situation. the showdown takes place in new york city hosted by cbs news and simo are classed here on c-span and c-span. before the debate begins, we want to hear from all of you. what issues do you want these candidates to address tonight with mark here's how you can join the conversation. if you are going to vote for the harris-walz ticket. if you are supporting another candidate, 20274 88922 is your line.
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if you want to text instead of calling, you can do so at 202-748-8903. before the debate and after the debate here on c-span, we will have a conversation with all of you as we always do. on c-span2 following the simulcast of the vice presidential debate, we are partnering with one of our cable affiliates, spectrum news, to bring you their postdebate coverage with analysis and reporters from around the country. before we get to the calls joining us this evening is dana ferguson with minnesota public radio, senior politics reporter here to talk about the minnesota governor. tell us something about the governor from your time covering him in minnesota that folks might not know heading into tonight's vice presidential debate. >> i imagine that folks have had
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this, governor tim walz is a pretty full cleat person. i have covered him since 2018 when he was elected. he's pretty down to earth can be free willing in his comments at times and it is sometimes tricky to quote him, especially on the radio. to find a soundbite of the governor can be a little hard. but he is generally easy to get along with and i would say that him being folksy on the campaign trail is pretty authentic. >> has he changed? >> i don't think he has changed all that much in the time i have covered him, with the exception of since he has been tapped as vice president kamala harris' running mate, we see a lot less of him he's been out through the swing states almost consistently
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, just constantly since he was chosen. that means the minnesota press corps has not had that much of an opportunity to speak with him and connect with him through the things going on in minnesota including how he is running the state from afar when he's not there. >> what will he tout from his record tonight? >> i would anticipate he will tout the work he and democrats in st. paul have done over the last two years to pass a laundry list of progressive items they have wanted to do for quite a long time, but were not able to do until democrats took over the tri-factor -- trifecta in the legislature. that includes making meals for students free at schools, expanding abortion rights in minnesota, affirming gender affirming care, boosting public funding for public schools,
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increasing protection for workers and more policy changes that are pretty significant and passed very quickly last year. >> what have you heard about his strategy tonight in the debate? >> i've heard from the campaign that he is really going to focus on what vice president harris could do for the country if she's elected. so he will be focusing quite a bit on the desire to protect reproductive health care if they are elected, as well as their plans to lift up the middle class and provide some economic support. i anticipate he's also going to take some time to introduce himself to voters who don't really know him very well, and to point out the fact that before he was elected to congress and before he was a governor, he was a teacher and a national guard member, and he thinks that has been really a big part of who he is and how he's able to connect to constituents.
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i imagine we will hear quite a bit about that and how that shaped him as a person. >> how long did he prepare for tonight's debate and how did he prepare? >> roughly a week, he has been preparing with campaign aids as well as with transportation secretary pete buttigieg, working on these sort of rehearsals, trying to understand what senator vance is like in a debate setting and how he can be prepared for that. we have not heard a whole lot. it has been behind-the-scenes but we know he has been getting used to someone playing this role and preparing for the ways the senator might try to get under his skin during this debate. >> dana ferguson covers politics for minnesota public radio. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. >> coming up in our hour before
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this debate starts, we will talk to ohio reporter about jd vance. as well. . . let's get to calls first. a democratic color in wisconsin. what do you want to hear tonight from these candidates? >> i'm really hoping to see that they can complement who they are running with mainly and basically what they plan to bring to the table alongside the presidential nominee they're running with. >> do you think off the top tonight that they need to address the situation in the middle east? >> i think that would be a very good thing to do, because that is obviously something that is rising. one thing that we should be
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finding out is basically what their plans are to handle that, because i don't think that will be going away anytime soon. whoever gets in that elected, i don't think the conflict will be resolved by then so it is important to lay out what their plan is to tackle this in the future. >> what do you want to hear? what sort of plan do you want the candidates to say? >> in regards to the middle east or just in general? >> yes, the middle east. >> personally, i think we need to engage in a cease-fire because what is going on over there is not good, and especially how we are basically continuing to allow it to happen , and really, especially from governor walz, i am hoping to
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hear if he has any plans to de-escalate and make it stop happening. >> ok, robin in wisconsin. we will go to chuck who is an independent. good evening, what do you want to hear from the candidates tonight? >> good evening, c-span. domestic issues. i want to hear about the plan to keep the country on financial track, i want to hear about job growth, i want to hear about producing oil and supply around the world. but also, lead in electric cars and things of that nature. the middle east i know is a hot topic, but unless you get all sides to sit down and discuss it, i don't know how you will solve it. it is something that will take time. netanyahu along with a ran --
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iran and hezbollah also want to come to the table to talk. it is going to be a very very difficult situation to try to contain and hopefully end. >> you are an independent. how you decided what you are voting for? >> yes, i believe i will vote for harris and walz. they have proven themselves to be a middle-class person like myself. i feel i can trust them with middle-class issues and build the country from the middle class out. i trust them. >> the fact that the vice president picked the minnesota governor, did that help you with the perception you have of them? >> no, i did not know any of the dp candidates except buttigieg. but seeing him and listening to who him, i think he's just like
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me. a regular guy like me. >> ok. here is a republican in grand fourth, north dakota. hello, peter. >> i'm really interested to see how people lay out their policies. i'm torn about who to vote for because i'm not really a jd vance supporter. but i think if harris -- >> we are going to move on from peter. let me show you the debate rules. this is what cbs laid out. this is a 90 minute debates. there are two breaks at four minutes each. there's no audience similar to the previous debate. only moderators ask questions and candidates stay behind podiums. senator vance will be on stage right.
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also, no props or prewritten notes are allowed. a pen, pad of paper it, and water are provided to the candidate. no topics or questions have been shared in advance. microphones may be cut at moderator discretion. the light will indicate time left with green at 15 minutes, yellow at five minutes, flashing red, and then read at zero. there will be two minute closing statements. a virtual coin toss was previously held and senator vance won and elected to go second with his closing statement. and again, we will have live coverage here, simulcast on the cbs vice presidential debate. angela and santa monica, california, a democratic voter. >> hello. i will vote for harris-walz but
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i would like to hear from vance more about technology. here in california, technology is very important. we have silicon valley and a large aerospace industry, and it is also important to agriculture. i would like to know, will jobs be lost because of automation and ai? but i would like to hear how jobs might be produced by the high-tech industry and any ideas he and trump may have for that since he does have a background there. from walz, i would like to hear about the dreamers, education, and the transition from high school to either occupational training or professional training and what the government can do to make that more affordable. thank you. >> angela with her thoughts in santa monica, california.
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a couple text messages from our ewers this is bella in texas. i am supporting harris-walz and i want walz to answer the inevitable undecided queion, how will americans' lives changing -- change with progressive programs? she wants the moderators to ask that question. page, is voting for trump and vance and says i am voting for my paycheck. norah o'donnell is one of the moderators this evening along with margaret brennan. nora o'donnell joined cbs news in 2011 and is currently the anchor of cbs evening news. margaret brennan joined cbs news in 2012 and is the moderator of face the nation and chief foreign affairs correspondent. those two ladies will be the moderators this evening.
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from salt lake city, utah, independent. we will go to you next. >> good evening and thank you for giving us this opportunity to share our views. i will be voting for the green party candidate jill stein. i am not -- the harris and walz position on the middle east has made me turn away from the democratic party. i think what we are seeing is truly an escalation by israel and i believe the only way we can see things calm down is if we hold back the aid to israel. we need to see a de-escalation and see the palestinians humanized in all of this and recognize their rights to statehood and self-defense and security as well. >> all right. we will go to chicago, republican color. help me with your name.
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is it ever him? >> yes. thank you for having me. i'm a republican. what i'm looking for tonight is jd vance to ask the question that i definitely hear the democratic view that donald trump, he canceled the bill they are trying to pass in congress. once he did that, what will harris do that she has not done? the democrats have never answered what they will actually do once they reach office. >> ok>>. republican color in chicago. on your screen by the way is the spin room where the supporters of the candidates and possibly jd vance himself will come into the spin room postdebate and talk to the media there. they will give their analysis, their interpretation of how the candidates did tonight.
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we have already seen pre-spin happening, supporters of the candidates have talked to the cameras. we expect to see them postdebate. you might see alabama senator katie britt, senator tom cotton, donald trump, jr., elise stefanik, house number leadership. they are in new york and expected to be in the spin room for jd vance. for minnesota governor tim walz, we've heard mark kelly the senator from arizona, jasmine crockett, house member. amy klobuchar, a minnesota colleague. jamie harrison, the democratic national committee chair, and illinois governor jb pritzker all expected to be in the spin room tonight. if we see any of those folks before, we may dip in a little bit but we will hear their reaction after the debate.
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i also want to note, 60 minutes minutes sent out this post on x earlier this evening. they are scheduled to air in primetime election, a special on a monday edition of the broadcast on october 7 and eighth. . for over half a century, 60 minutes has invited the republican and democratic tickets to appear on the broadcast as americans had to the polls. this year both the harris and trump campaigns agreed to sit down with 60 minutes. vice president harris will speak with bill whitaker. after initially accepting a 60 minutes request for an interview, former president trump's campaign has decided not to participate. our election special will broadcast the harris interview on monday as planned. our original invitation to former president donald trump to be interviewed on 60 minutes stands. that is what 60 minutes had to say about their programming no.
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coming up in 40 minutes, we expect the cbs vice presidential debate, the one and only from this political cycle to get underway and we will simulcast here on c-span and c-span two ahead of that, a conversation about what you want to hear from the candidates. ben boss is joining us from southern methodist university, director of debate and speech. let's begin with debate styles beginning with the ohio senator. how would you describe his debate style? >> i think he is relatively battle tested. he's had a lot of aggressive interviews with the media. he has a law school background. he is also pretty seasoned in the debating process. he was fairly aggressive in his debate with tim ryan in ohio. i think we will see a relatively
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assertive debate style from vance. >> and how would you describe it for the minnesota governor? >> i think there is a gentler kind of softer style for walz. i think he does draw upon a softer teacher, coach persona. at the same time watching him in the minnesota governor debate, i thought he was a very effective and forceful when necessary candidate and able to articulate himself pretty well. i think he may try a bit of the kinder and gentler style to set a contrast with vance. >> i want to go back and show our viewers how they have debated in previous election cycles when they were running for offices then. a topic both of them addressed in previous debates is the abortion issue. let's begin with jd vance from a previous debate on this issue. >> you cannot say with total
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confidence what every single exception is and every case is going to be. . let me offer a specific example here. i know a lot of pro-life people. i know people who are pro-life since before i was born. one of the things they tell you is they support an exception in the case of incest for example. i heard a number of pro-life people say that. but that looks different at three weeks of pregnancy versus 39 weeks. so actually don't think you can say on a debate stage every single thing that you are going to vote for when it comes to an abortion piece of legislation. what i am willing to do and what i think is a lot more helpful for voters is to say number one, what are my principles? i want to save as many lives as possible and i would love to give it to a country where young people don't feel pressured by boyfriends to have abortions and where adoption services are available and young women can get access to the health care they need to have babies. the other thing i think is so
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important is there are specific pieces of legislation i'm willing to talk about where you talk about the lindsey graham bill. the lindsey graham bill protects babies who are four weeks and older. fully formed babies who can feel pain and it provides reasonable exceptions. if you can't support legislation like that, you are making the united states the most barbaric pro-abortion regime anywhere in the entire world. >> jd vance during a debate for the senate seat they currently hold. i want to show you the minnesota governor on the same topic of abortion. >> there is a clear contrast here. my entire career, i have trusted women to make their health care decisions. i don't believe anyone who sits in this office should come between them. scott was clear in may, he mocked me and said, no kidding charla, i'm running for governor and we will ban abortion.
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that changed after roe v. wade. you heard distant -- you heard this go to many different places. it's not about trusting women. it is about changing your position as the winds blow. this is about life and death. this is about making the most personal decisions with a woman. i've made it clear in everything i've done. i did not have to practice 40 years of medicine to change positions on women's health care in the final weeks once we saw how unpopular this was. being governor means making her decisions. doesn't mean you will always get it right but it means trusting minnesotans. let's be clear. the governments appoint supreme court justices. we heard supreme court justice's go in front of the u.s. senate and claimed there was no way roe v. wade would change because it was settled law. well, for us once. it is not going to happen here in minnesota. i want to be clear, this is on the ballot. it will impact generations to come.
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i have been absolutely clear from the beginning of this. not on our watch. i trust women to make their own health care decisions. >> ben voth, what is your reaction to hearing the two candidates on that issue? what did you hear in tone and their delivery? >> abortion is a very difficult, polarizing issue to talk about. i think both men do a competent job in the local settings in ohio and minnesota. the thing i like about the walz response, it is a good base appeal. he's looking right at the camera and making great eye contact and being forceful. that is what i was alluding to earlier, he can be very direct and forceful. vance i think is being a little more nuanced and a little more sophisticated in the way of trying to talk about the variations in abortion law and trying to settle himself more into the midrange and the center of the debate to see it both
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ways. . you can kind of see two different strategies that might be useful. one pushing toward the middle by vance and then with walz, trying to make a base appeal and say i will absolutely protect the right to abortion. they are both doing their rhetorical jobs pretty well but they are definitely aiming in different directions. i thought the camera angles better for walz looking one-on-one with the camera. it is a little more split with vance with the two candidates on the screen so not quite as strong of a dynamic. >> what do you make of these two candidates taking about a week to prepare for tonight? >> i think they've got great preparation. pete buttigieg doing the work with walz and demers is doing debate prep with vance. both men have shown skill in gubernatorial and senate debates. it does seem like they are taking it seriously.
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sometimes you have presidential candidates that for various reasons don't engage heavily but it seems like both campaigns are serious about it. i found it throughout the process a little ironic that walz warned harris that he did not think he was a good debater, but after watching his full governor debate, i think he has a lot of skill. it does seem like a bit of a low expectations game, he's going up against the yale law school grad and not expecting a lot. but i think both have done good preparation and are probably well over to deliver -- well able to deliver contact and talking points they want their main candidates to talk about in the aftermath of the debate. >> is that a strategy heading into the debate to under promise? >> that is one of the ways these debates are measured, the low
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expectations game and it kind of goes back to the early 2000 debates, and sometimes campaigns learned that by setting the expectation for a candidate low, they can say our candidate really surpassed expectations. i think there's a little bit of a sense that vance because of his yale law degree is perhaps more advanced in the way of argumentation so i think there is a bit of an expectation game being played so they can call themselves the winner in the immediate aftermath. >> how do you prepare for a debate? >> for my debaters, i want them to do the research and study. even for these campaigns, it will be similar. they will be aware that there are at least 10 to 20 major issues these campaigns are trying to get at and will try to prioritize. for example abortion, that is probably something that the walz campaign wants to talk about. conversely, i think that dance'
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as a team wants to talk about immigration and the economy. you want to study the research behind them and practice delivering the lines. two nights from now, we will practice at the university. the more that they practice with real debate opponents, the better they will be on stage in front of a television camera in front of tens of millions of viewers. >> ben voth with southern methodist university director of debate and speech, thank you for the insights. as he was saying, their preparations by jd vance ahead of tonight were done with the majority whip in the house, calm never. he played the role of governor vance. most preparations have taken place at the senator's home in ohio and the representative is serving his fifth term for
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minnesota's sixth district. so from minnesota and impersonating walz. before that he served in minnesota's house of representatives in 2004 2 2008. back to our conversation with all of you. ralph in new york, democratic color. >> did evening. i am a uaw worker from upstate. workers spend a third of their time in the workplace of the day and i like the candidates that talk about the proactive as 567 voted out of the senate. labor committee is waiting for a vote in the senate. the second bill is raise the wage act. it has a provision that tip workers will raise the wages so it is on par with other minimum-wage workers. the third bill on civil rights, the john lewis voting rights act because we do need federal oversight over the elections.
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those are the three bills i want them to talk about. >> very good, ralph. jd in new >> good evening. >> good evening. what do you want to hear from the candidates? >> i have four points that i need to hear from them to know which way i'm going to vote. first will be sustainable agriculture. i want to know exactly what they are going to do to help continue agriculture that we now have and develop agriculture in the future. in this area, the immigration issue is something people talk about. you have to suffer with it. i would like to know which one of the candidates is going to continue to promote the petroleum industry. green energy is something we have to have. no two ways around it. but we can't abandon petroleum
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energy. the military needs to be supported. whenever we have to get into conflict, i want to be sure that whichever these candidates get into office will be the one to support our military. >> all right. we will go to the spin room in new york. governor pritzker talking to reporters there in support of governor walz. >> what are they doing in these final 35 days? they don't want to be interviewed. they don't want to get their message out. what is it that they are afraid of? what is donald trump afraid of? >> what would you like to see tonight at the debate from tim walz? he's a great communicator. what do you say? >> this is a guy who is a genuinely kind human being. when he shows that, when he's out there and just talking the way tim walz does, i think
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people get the feeling of a guy they can trust. that's the big contrast here tonight. on one side of the stage, we have a guy who has been a trustworthy leader in minnesota. across the mid west, people are starting to say, this is a guy who is just like me. on the other seida of the stage, someone who consistently comes across as slick. he lies. he admitted he made up the story about springfield, ohio and the immigrants. he is known to be somebody who is untrustworthy. mitt romney, who a lot of people respect as a republican leader, has said that jd vance is someone he doesn't respect. >> what do you think has to be done to move the needle? >> tim walz has to be himself.
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he has to get the message out about their plan for the middle class. the fact that they will bring down prices. $6,000 into young family wallets with the child tax credit. $25,000 to buy your first home. $50,000 if you want to start a business. those things really matter to middle-class americans and working americans. those are messages i would like to hear from tim walz tonight. >> they haven't seemed to break through. >> she started behind. the democratic ticket was way behind when kamala harris took over. when tim walz was added, that has gone better and better and better for democrats. now you are seeing we are roughly tied nationally. but with a trajectory that should take kamala harris and tim walz over the top. >> jb pritzker in the spin room in new york city, recapping the
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race. 34 days to go before the election. previewing tonight's vice presidential debate. we will be simulcasting that debate on c-span and c-span2. what do you want to hear from these candidates? what issues should they address? shirley and greenfield, tennessee, republican. >> thank you for taking my call. i am a republican but i'm also an american. what i'm really wanting to hear is, instead of polarizing competitive attitudes, i really want to hear -- sorry. my cats were playing. [laughter] they are so goofy. i'm really wanting to hear sincerity. i want to hear both candidates speak, understanding that if
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they take on the role as the vice president, they are taking on and in norma's responsibility -- an enormous responsibility. to keep us safe from wars. to work on our economy and keep it right. to keep government out of people's personal business. and just do their job. it seems like election after election, the polarization is getting so bad. it's almost like the american people -- the children of divorced parents. fighting and fighting and they are the ones pitting for -- paying for it. i want to hear sincerity. i want to hear specific plans on what they are going to do to make our lives better. i'd like them to remember that they work for us. taxpayers pay their check.
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my nephew is getting ready to deploy to the latest thing with iran. it's a free country. we just don't feel very free. >> all right. surely in tennessee. cynthia in seattle. democratic color. >> oh hello. thank you for taking my call. i would like to hear the candidates speak about civil liberty. the first amendment and our right to privacy are very important to me. i would like to hear them address that. thank you for taking my call. >> thanks for calling in. more calls coming up. first we want to hear from david to white of the ohio capital journal. talking about senator jd vance. tell us about jd vance. he's a one term senator from ohio. this is his first appearance on
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a national stage. other than his acceptance speech for the vice presidential ticket. >> yeah. he was first elected to the u.s. senate representing o tile -- ohio in 2022. he's pretty new to having any elected position whatsoever, as well as the national stage as you point out. we haven't had -- we haven't seen him. he had a couple of debates before when he was campaigning against tim ryan. he likes to debate. he tends to remain fairly calm. i wouldn't expect a lot of fireworks or big emotional reactions from him. he does do the back-and-forth debate pretty well. it should be an interesting night to see how he performs he's been getting fact checked a lot lately. it will be interesting to see
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whether he leans in on some of those assertions he has made about springfield or whether he backs off of it if and when it comes up tonight. >> how has jd vance changed over the years, from before senator to being a senator and now as the vice presidential nominee on the republican ticket. >> he famously started as the memoirist who wrote about appalachia and poor industrial cities in the midwest. he was a never trumper at that time. he called him america's hit. he was very anti-trump. by the time he was running for senate in 2022, he had transformed himself into very much a trump supporter. it was trump's endorsement that really put him over the edge in a competitive primary.
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which got him to the general in that sense. he's become much more radicalized i would say since 2016 when we first got to know him. he was fairly middle-of-the-road. he was appearing in a lot of the media writing for a lot of the media. so he's become much more radical, both before he was elected as senator and in his term as senator. i would say that instead of being more of a centrist as we first got to know him, he's much more far-right and much more aligned with extreme figures on the far right now. >> what record, what would he tell from his record from serving in the senate tonight? what would you talk about? >> the biggest thing he's been known for in the senate is opposing any help for ukraine. he also did come together to do some bipartisan work to help
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east palestine after the toxic chemical trained roman there -- train derailment there. he met with the people of east palestine and he worked on bipartisan legislation to hold the train companies accountable and make sure that these chemicals had some accountability when they are on train tracks area i'm not sure if he will point to that specifically tonight. that's one thing i think of that he has done as senator representing ohio. aside from just making a name for himself, mostly opposing the aid to ukraine. >> what have you heard about his strategy for tonight? >> well, i believe he's been preparing by talking with, being coached by tom emmer. walls is having pete buttigieg in his debate preparation sessions. i think fans generally likes to
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have the verbal sparring. he likes to make a lot of television appearances. he likes to go back and forth with reporters in those experiences and in his campaign appearances as well. so i think that what he will do is challenge walz on their respected records of service. he will challenge walz on immigration and economy themes. vince tends to direct himself into areas that he feels most secure argumentative leon. he likes to go to immigration, the economy. it will be really interesting to see the contrast between walz and vance when it comes to revitalization of the industrial heartland and manufacturing. because we are in the middle of a manufacturing boom right now
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that happened during the biden harris administration. but if vance's typical rhetoric is any indication, he's going to say that there needs to be much more happening. i don't know if he will acknowledge the manufacturing that's happening right now. he will probably make a populist case pleading toward the industrial heartland that's been hit hardest over the last 30 years or so. by the loss of manufacturing jobs. i think that walz will point to the boom that's been happening the last couple years. >> all right. editor with the ohio capital journal, thank you for your time. >> of course. thank you so much for having me. >> back with the conversation of all of you. brandon, independent. what do you want to hear from the candidate? >> i just want to sum up my ideas in one quick sentence.
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i want my trans neighbors to be able to defend their marijuana plants if they want to. the sentimental conversation has not been had. my possible vote for harris is more of a protest over trump. regardless, neither of them stand for rights is much as i would like them to. one thing that would help me to vote for harris moore would be if she flopped back to whatever stance she has for rights and meant it. it's a shame that i have to pay $200 just for a safety device like a silencer. those kinds of things are things that are on my mind. >> ok. billion san jose. good evening. >> hi. i'm so excited. i am voting for vice president harris and her nominee for vice president.
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i have really strong convictions. i was born and raised in california. over the few years that she's been vice president and so on, i've had people tell me from both sides. i feel like i know her. she's a christian. i truly believe that her and her candidate for vice president are perfect. >> you are happy with her pick? choosing the minnesota governor. >> yes i am. >> what does he bring to the table? >> he's down-to-earth. he is very sincere. she's also very sincere. i was raised very poorly. but we had a roof over our head. we had food on the table. my dad was a steady worker, hard worker. my mom was as well.
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all i can say is that i really believe in the two of them. i feel it's a better thing for the united states. trump and his nominee for vice president, i am so put off. >> ok. i am going to get eli in, republican from ohio. eli. >> i'm a 19-year-old college student from ohio and i'm a republican. i'm a reagan and bush republican. i would like to get back to those days. i'm very concerned with arbeit -- with senator vance. i don't love him. i'm in ohio him. >> why not? >> i don't know if you saw it today. there was a strike against israel. vance has shown a shaky stance in standing against foreign dictators like around and russia. i think that's concerning. i would love him to reassure the american people of our job to
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defend democracy globally. >> eli, we talked about it at the top. when we started this evening. do you think that that issue needs to be addressed right away by the moderators? the first question which is, the intensifying situation in the middle east. >> 100%. it's very scary what's going on over there. >> eli from ohio. an independent in ohio as well. you are in north olmsted, ohio. go ahead. >> yes. i'm going to be 94 years old and i've come to the conclusion, no matter which party is in office, it's the owners of the federal reserve bank that controlled the country. have always controlled the country and always will as long as the banking system is not in the hands of the government. >> already. earlier we heard from democratic governor jb pritzker in the spin
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room in new york city. there on your screen. we've been showing you it all evening. he was talking in support of the harris-walz ticket. the trump campaign senior adviser spoke to the cameras earlier this evening and here's what he had to say. >> people are voting. especially in a lot of these battleground states. people are voting. look at what's going on in the world right now. iran attacking israel. hezbollah and can you -- continuing chaos with hamas. look at what china is doing against taiwan. people are having to decide between groceries and gas. the country is not going in the right direction. people are looking to see, who can make my life better? we will often take a look at the political lens. there are a lot of people out
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tonight in very tough circumstances financially. they are saying, i need someone to turn my life around. way too many voters are giving up hope. they don't think anything will get better. they are looking for someone who will help champion them. >> isn't there something anti-climactic? there are all those weighty issues that you just laid out. we are not hearing from harris and we are not hearing from trump during the debate. it's not the top of the tickets were meeting to have the last word. >> the president is out there every single day. he has an aggressive schedule. kamala harris is the one doing very little interview. i don't think a podcast counts. we must be doing well in the podcast game if she's trying to get into it now. but no. there will be plenty of opportunities to see president trump get his message across. i hope kamala harris has more interviews with all of you.
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>> senior advisor there for the trump campaign, talking to reporters earlier tonight in new york city in the spin room. we are just over 10 minutes away from the simulcast of the cbs vice presidential debate. around 8:15 this evening, donald trump, jr. tweeting out this tweet with a picture of jd vance. the former president's running mate on the way to the debate with my man jd vance. let's go. we may see donald trump, jr. in the spin room this evening. we will go to the supporters for each camp in the postdebate program here on c-span following the debate. we will pick up here and take more of your phone calls, have a conversation with you, get your reaction to the bait -- debate and hear from their supporters as well. michael in jacksonville, florida. democratic voter. what do you want to hear today? >> i want to hear two main things. i want to hear walz address how
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him and harris are going to keep trump from joining the white house. he's a traitor to the united states. from jd vance, i would like to hear from him. if the former president tries to do this again, will he have the same spine that vice president mike pence did to stand up for the american people? >> all right. michael with some question suggestions for the moderators. steven in portsmouth, ohio. republican. >> hello. three things i would like to hear tonight. i would like to hear clarifying comments about spring field, ohio and what's going on there. jd vance has been there. i would like to hear more about abortion and considering what harris said about pence, i would like to hear clarifying comments
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on his stance on abortion. thank you. >> ok. pennsylvania independent. what do you want to hear? >> hello? >> nick in morehead, minnesota. democratic caller. >> hi. i'm a minnesota resident and a college student voting in my first presidential election. i want to hear about education issues, especially with the price of college in minnesota. governor walz helped make university tuition free for families that made under $80,000 a year. for my younger step wings, he made school lunches free-for-all k to 12 students and increase public school funding by 5.5 billion. so i want to hear about those in the debate tonight. bottom line is, he's been a fantastic governor. i think he will be a great vice president. minnesota has given the country to vice presidents in hubert humphrey and walter mondale.
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tim walz will be an incredible addition to that. >> what do you think he brings to the ticket? >> i mean, he's just a really down to earth guy. i mean, i know plenty of guys in minnesota who are just like tim walz. i would be happy with any of them as vice president. and i'm happy that tim walz has a good shot at being it. >> do you want him to remain progressive and push progressive initiatives or do you see a need for him and the vice president to come to the center? >> i mean, tim walz has always -- she's always been a moderate. he won in a red district in southern minnesota. i think it's a misnomer when
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progressive policy issues are just policy issues that help ordinary people. if progressive is helping ordinary americans, than i would love for them to be progressive. >> ok. republican. let's hear from you. >> hey. thanks for taking the call. i would just like to get what they will do with the border crisis. our economy. the abortion topic. that's about it. >> ok. john in missouri. we are a few minutes out here. washington, d.c.. independent. this debate will get underway at 9:00 p.m. eastern time. what do you want to hear? >> -- >> are you there? all right. let me move on to blaine to get democratic caller.
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>> i want to hear about foreign policy pig what the stance is on ukraine. i want to know what's going on in the middle east as well. union rights. the rights of workers. what are they going to defend the middle class. >> crag is in northport, republican. >> i would like to hear claire for case and on the migration act. and what's going to be done to curb the illegal immigration. i also like to see if senator walz can talk about the economy and not just give us a story about the middle class. thank you. >> you are a republican. do you will vote in november? >> absolutely. i am voting republican this year. >> what is the number one issue
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for you that you will vote republican? >> the number one issue is illegal immigration and the economy. two big issues honestly. >> ok. why do you think the former president will do a better job on those issues? >> he was already in office for four years and he proved he could keep a stable economy. we actually had great progress with the economy under trump. so i think that's why am voting for him. >> how do you think jd vance helps the ticket on issues like that? >> i think he is a down-to-earth, grassroots candidate who can relate to the middle class and the middle upper class. i think that's how he bridges the gap. >> eric in pennsylvania, democratic caller. hi eric. >> hello. yes. i mean question is, where is the common decency in this country? jd vance gets on a podium and
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talks about his own constituents , saying that they are eating cats and dogs. where is the sense of society? where's the sense of common decency? this is unreal. how has it gotten this far? the michael mania that jd has displayed you look at what he said a few years ago. what he says now, it's truly terrifying. so that's what i hope tim walz asks about. where's the sense of decency? >> all right. eric there in pennsylvania. we will go to the senator's home state. rick is in dayton, ohio. independent. >> hi. how are you? my main concern is health care and why medical bankruptcy as american while every other country in the world offers guaranteed health care to their citizens. i would love to hear both candidates discuss that, how it's going to be resolved. so many people enter retirement
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and beyond. they spend their whole lives and then they get sick. as you get older, you need health care for quality of life. people have to choose between death and bankruptcy when it comes to our system. i think it's horrible. >> brandon in indiana. what do you want to hear about? >> i want to hear why temp on tim, why he wants to put tampa on in boys bathrooms. little kids. the new world order is on the run. >> all right jason. what's -- let's hear from you? >> what's up? i would like to hear -- i like the comment the guy made before. decency. just remembering that kids are watching. i also think that walz is going
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to do real well by reminding people that the republicans need to stay out of everybody's business. >> ok. mississippi independent. jones. >> hello. it's just the decency. i will be supporting former president trump. just the lack of decency. >> where is the lack of decency coming from? >> it's coming from both sides after the assassination attempt. trump called kamala wicked.
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i thought there would be a downplaying of rhetoric. it was the total opposite. >> so you don't want to hear that tonight from jd vance or tim walz? >> not at all. i think it's disgraceful, the lack of decency. frankly both sides have. >> all right. stephanie and marilyn. what do you want to hear? real quick. >> i would like to hear mr. walz talk about decency and the lack of it on the republican side. we know from pretty much his adolescence mr. trump has not been particularly decent to anybody. he was prosecuted as a slumlord. he's bankrupted several companies. not personal bankruptcy but several businesses. he's known for not paying contractors in middle america. you want to work for a man who
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won't pay you? a rich man who won't pay you? as far as the economy, he's racked up $3.5 billion. >> all right stephanie. we are now just moments away from tonight's simulcast of the cbs news vice presidential debate here on c-span. a little more than 90 minutes of debate expected between jd vance and tim walz. after the debate, we hear phone calls and see your reaction on social media and take a look inside the spin room in new york to see how the campaigns are spinning the debate. that's all here on the c-span network following tonight's debate. ♪ >> we are just over a month until election day. the first and only meeting between the two men who've hoped to become vice president. tim walz of minnesota and jd vance of ohio. this is likely the final debate of the election cycle and voting is already underway in 20 states.
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